“History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a clear and consistent idea of what it really wants.”
― The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarchoprimitivism
― The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarchoprimitivism
“73. ...There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer’s orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else’s employee.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help.”
― Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
― Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
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